Container List

Series 1.
Day Books, Ledgers, and Blotters1803-1869

Physical Description: 36 folders

Scope and Content Note

DAY BOOKS are arranged by date and include patient's name, short statement of
treatment or drugs provided, and sometimes cost of the service. LEDGER entries
are arranged under patient names, not in alphabetical order but with an
alphabetical index in front or back of each volume, and include the date of
service, sometimes indication of treatment, and financial transactions
concerning that patient. Volumes called BLOTTERS seem identical to Day books.
The volumes are arranged in rough chronology, often overlapping in dates. Any
loose pieces of paper found in the volumes are housed in the same folders as the
volumes in which they were found.

Arrangement

chronological

Box 1, Folder 1

Day book.May 1803-Sep 1804

Physical Description: no cover, stitched pages, 7 x 13"

Box 1, Folder 2

Ledger.1804-1805

Physical Description: bound, hard cover, 8 x 12.5"

Note

additional scraps found between pages: include papers pertaining to a
patient being committed to the insane asylum

Partnership agreement on first page: "1819, June 15th, Pennsborough. Thomas
Wood Senior and Thomas Wood Junior Have this day Entered into Partnership to be
equal in the profits and expenses of the Practice of Physick, Surgery and
Midwifery (But in no other Respect). In witness of this above argument we
Hereunto Set our hands. Thomas Wood Sen, Thomas Wood Jun"

Note

also separate pages for 1819 found in other volumes

Box 1, Folder 13

"Receipts given Dr. Thos. Wood".no date

Physical Description: unbound, folded and stitched pages, 6.5 x 8.5"

Note

Thomas Wood Junior's name appears in the contents, so it is assumed
that this booklet belonged to Thomas Wood Senior

additional scraps found between pages, including a newspaper clipping
of a poem translated from French: "The death of President Lincoln", by Edouard
Grenier

Series 2.
Loose Manuscript Materials.1803-1865

Physical Description: 31 folders

Scope and Content Note

This series contains mostly records of financial transactions pertaining to
the Wood multigenerational medical practice, plus some farm and household
records. The vast majority is written on scraps of paper which were folded into
small packets; a summary of the transaction and a follow-up are often noted on
the obverse of the paper, which sometimes clarifies the content. Because both
Drs. Thomas Wood used the same name it is often impossible to distinguish
between them; 1826, the year of Dr. Wood senior's death, seemed a sensible date
for a separation of subseries. Many of the papers deal with settlement of Dr.
Wood senior's estate; these constitute a separate series.

Arrangement

chronological

Subseries 1.
Early Financial Records1803-1826

Physical Description: 10 folders

Arrangement

by topic

Box 3, Folder 3

Accounts payable.1803-1825

Scope and Content Note

receipts for payments from Dr. Thomas Wood

Box 3, Folder 4

Accounts payable.1811-1823

Scope and Content Note

requests for payment from, and promissory notes by, Dr. Thomas Wood

Box 3, Folder 5

Accounts payable.1817-1825

Scope and Content Note

Bills for good, produce, and services provided to Dr. Thomas Wood

Box 3, Folder 6

Accounts receivable.1803-1825

Scope and Content Note

Bills for services and receipts for payments.

Box 3, Folder 7

Accounts receivable.1819-1825

Scope and Content Note

Promissory notes handed to a third party for collection

Box 3, Folder 8

Legal judgments for payment.1818-1825

Scope and Content Note

actions brought by Dr. Thomas Wood

Box 3, Folder 9

Legal judgments for payment.1817-1825

Scope and Content Note

actions brought against Dr. Thomas Wood; also actions between two other
parties

an agreement by Thomas Wood and George Wood, dated 1828, to submit their
unresolved differences to arbitration, and to abide by the arbitrator's
decision; the arbitrator's assignments of worth to each party; plus extensive
listing of all patients treated during the span of the partnership practice,
with fees charged in each case, and how these fees were divided between the
former partners

Box 3, Folder 11

Memorandum of money paid to the heirs of James Wood by Thomas
Wood.
1826

Physical Description: manuscript sheets with holes, stains and bleeding ink obscuring some
of the contents

Scope and Content Note

1) statements concerning the existence of a will other than the one submitted
for probate; 2) letter from ? to Thomas Wood Jr. concerning the building of a
house for Thomas Wood Sr. by David Montgomery; 3) narrative by Thomas Wood Jr.
concerning events after his uncle's death; 4) other documents

Box 3, Folder 14

"Evidence of corruption in the administration of the affairs of the
estate of Dr. Wood."
no date

Scope and Content Note

several sheets stating points against the administrator, and a paragraph from
the opposing point of view

Box 3, Folder 15

Receipts for money paid by the estate administrators.1827-1834

Note

Dr. Wood Jr. had folded many of these items into packets; his cover
slips are included with each group

Box 3, Folder 16

Bill and claims submitted to the estate administrators.1817-1829

Box 3, Folder 17

Estate accounts brought before a justice of the peace for
settlement.
1826-1834

Box 3, Folder 18

Moneys received and due the estate.1828-1840

Scope and Content Note

receipts for money received; promissory notes handed to a third party for
collection; notes labeled "not recoverable"

Subseries 3.
Later Financial Records1826-1871

Physical Description: 9 folders

Arrangement

by topic

Box 3, Folder 19

Accounts payable.1826-1867

Scope and Content Note

receipts, bills, promissory notes

Note

includes two printed promissory-note forms, one blank and one filled
out dated 1867, with revenue stamps

Box 3, Folder 20

Accounts payable.1845-1846

Scope and Content Note

bills from Mrs. Hannah Riebsam [apparently the proprietor of a dry goods
store]

a list of some financial assets, 1865; receipts for tax payments; a notice
concerning the Dr. Thomas Wood Jr. estate

Subseries 4.
Miscellaneous Manuscript Materials.1818-1865

Physical Description: 6 folders

Arrangement

by topic

Box 3, Folder 28

Assorted documents: medical.1818-1865

Physical Description: three booklets, stitched, no cover; single sheets, some foxing and
tears

Scope and Content Note

1) lecture notes, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1818/19; 2) notes on drugs and
medications; 3) "An essay on rheumatism submitted to the examination of the
Medical Board in the University of Pennsylvania, Feb. 12th, 1819"; 4) notes and
three letters; 5) draft of a speech to the Medical Society of the County of
Lycoming

Box 3, Folder 29

Assorted documents: political, religious, philosophical.1841

Scope and Content Note

drafts of letters to the editors of the "Lycoming Gazette" and the "Muncy
Telegraph", rebutting published allegations; drafts for what may have been short
speeches, other letters for publication, or just musings

Box 3, Folder 30

Assorted documents: family.1819-1854

Scope and Content Note

1) article of agreement between the two Drs. Thomas Wood concerning real
estate, 1825; 2) two family letters, 1843, 1854

Box 3, Folder 31

Assorted documents: general.1828-1855

Scope and Content Note

includes: letter concerning lottery tickets; short report on church
subscription funds for 1849-1850; Dr. Thomas Wood's record of birth for Sarah
Isabel Neel, 1853; two names on a subscription list for a copy of "Uncle Sam's
Mess-room, or The Mechanic Sailor," by J. A. Hazen, 1853; a note which seems to
say: "Douglas vote 18 Nov (?) in the County of Lycoming as by official
return-137, Lincoln-3494, Bell-91"; and others

Box 3, Folder 32

Teachers of Lycoming County.1856

Scope and Content Note

a sheet titled: "Address of Teachers of Lycoming Co." and two short letters
to Dr. Wood concerning a circular to be sent

1) Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. "Annual report of the
Board of Directors", 1854. [George G. Wood was one of the consulting physicians
for the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb]. 2) "The Unity of
Medicine: an introductory lecture", by Alfred Stillé, Medical Department
of Pennsylvania College, 1856.

Note

These pamphlets have been separately cataloged and housed. Access via
the UCLA Library online catalog.

Box 4, Folder 2

Professional medical institutions and societies.1849-1903

Scope and Content Note

1) membership card of the American Medical Association annual meeting,
Boston, May 1849, made out to "Thomas Wood, delegate from the State Medical
Society, Pennsylvania"; 2) resolutions of the Medical Society of the State of
Pennsylvania, 1852; 3) annual announcement of The Medical Department,
Pennsylvania College, Philadelphia, 1858-5; 4) invitation to the commencement
exercises of the class of 1903 of the Medico Chirurgical College, Philadelphia,
with a visiting card for T. Kenneth Wood inside; the envelope [with no sign of
having been mailed] is addressed to Mr. William J. Wood, Muncy, Penn.; 5) notice
of a summer course of lectures to be given at the Medical Department of the
Pennsylvania College

Box 4, Folder 3

Advertisement booklets and catalogs.1860-1889

Scope and Content Note

1) "Catalogue of fluid and solid extracts in vacuo, also concentrations and
officinal pills, prepared by Henry Thayer and Co.", 1867; 2) "The Gettysburg
Katalysine water; reports of physicians and the people of its wonderful cures;
history of the spring, 1868; 3) "Wasting diseases, their causes, treatment, and
cure" [touting Scott & Bowne's emulsion of pure cod liver oil with
hypophosphites of lime and soda], 1879; 4) Sanford, Truslow & Co. heaters
and stoves, 1889; 5) Dr. Price's extract of vanilla

Note

the verso of the Dr. Price advertisement has a bill of sale for William
J. Wood, dated 1889

Box 4, Folder 4

Religious and cultural materials.1824-1856

Scope and Content Note

1) "An address delivered at the opening of the tenth exhibition of the
American Academy of the Fine Arts", by Gulian C. Verplanck, 1824; 2) "An address
on the study of natural history" by John G. Morris, and "A poem on the
sovereignty of the mind" by John N. M'Jilton, 1841; 3) "Popular amusements: a
discourse delivered in the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Winchester, VA", by Rev.
Charles Porterfield Krauth, 1851 (second edition); 4) "Subjection to law, the
constitution of man's nature: a discourse to the graduating class of
Pennsylvania College" by H. L. Baugher, 1852; 5) "The Sunday question. Sabbath
of the Jews. Sunday of Constantine", by William Logan Fisher and Edward M.
Davis, 1855; 6) "Religious liberty: an address to The Phrenakosmian Society of
Pennsylvania College", by J. S. Black, 1856

Box 4, Folder 5

Political materials.1828-1849

Scope and Content Note

1) "Address to the people of Pennsylvania", 1828; 2) "To the people of
Pennsylvania. Read, pause, reflect, & vote!!", 1832; 3) "Message of the
President of the United States to Congress", 31st Congress, 1st session,
1849

Series 4.
Objectsno dates

Physical Description: 2 folders and 8 objects

Box 4, Folder 6

Portrait of Thomas Wood, Sr.no date

Physical Description: 3.5 x 5" oval mounted in a 7.5 x 9" frame

Scope and Content Note

photographic copy of a stippled engraving, bust portrait, with Dr. Wood's
signature pasted on and the dates 1780-1826 in ink underneath; a short biography
written by George G. Wood, the doctor's grand-nephew, dated 1902, is affixed to
the frame backing